Literary connections Cheapside

cheapside in 1979.

hugh lofting s book doctor dolittle, published in 1951, names quarrelsome london sparrow cockney accent cheapside. lives of year in st. edmund s left ear in st. paul s cathedral , invited african country of fantippo deliver mail cities because other birds not able navigate city streets.

cheapside depicted in rosemary sutcliff s 1951 children s historical novel armourer s house, along other parts of tudor london.

in more contemporary treatment, cheapside of middle ages referenced in derogatory sense in 2001 movie knight s tale being poor, unhealthy , low-class birthplace , home of unlikely hero.

19th century cheapside presented home of mary jacky faber in bloody jack l. a. meyer.

william shakespeare used cheapside setting several bawdy scenes in henry iv, part i. reference made in henry vi, part ii, in speech rebel jack cade: .... realm shall in common; , in cheapside shall palfrey go grass .

additionally, cheapside depicted major setting in bestselling novel maria mccann, meat loves salt, historical feature set against english civil war.